(10-04-2016, 03:49 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-04-2016, 12:51 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Michelle Cottle of The Atlantic seems to agree with me: Ivanka is a woman to watch. Could she be a factor in future presidential campaigns?
It seems increasingly likely that The Donald is going to crash and burn big time, perhaps to the point of tainting his entire family. Still, he made a big enough splash that someone or other will try to copy his approach. I'm not sure how easy it would be to copy. A lot of what Trump does is based on his rather exotic media skills and persona. Copying that seems tricky to me at best.
But Trump has driven a huge wedge between the establishment pro Robber Baron wing of the Republicans and the haters of all things Washington DC. I'm not seeing this divide going away soon. It also seems real, not a media showtime charisma based carnival side show, as so much of Trump's act seems to be. It seems possible that a sane seeming less off the wall candidate with fewer self destructive tendencies might be able to exploit the split between establishment Washington DC Republicans and the rural base.
Ivanka? She has the looks, name recognition, connections and apparently skills to become a pro politician. She seems to have the discipline to create the impression of competence. Like her father, she has no experience in government. If she starts running for office with a stop in the US Senate or a governor's chair she might position herself for a serious presidential run. For most potential presidential candidates this would mean a decade or three of paying dues and learning ropes. If she works on picking up experience, she could apprentice herself into becoming a potentially competent office holder.
Being who she is, she might be able to short cut that somewhat. How long did Hillary and Obama work in government before they started being viewed as potential presidents? Ivanka might not have to invest that much time before making a run, but I think she'd be better off if she did.
But if she doesn't position herself as a sane driver of her father's Wedge, I suspect somebody else will.
But Trump IS a robber baron. The other barons just need to adopt some of his brand; but not all of it because the barons can point to his lost and tell the sheeple that they can't go completely nutso, wink-wink, until fully ensconced in the WH.
The sheeple group of Albion's Seed are not going to change; they will always be manipulated by the plantation elites - their slaughter in the Civil War made that pretty clear. They are destined to fade with demographics and that will eventually undermine the political power of the latest plantation elites and robber barons - this could be the last national election where they had a chance; 2020 might make that clear.
It could be Ivanka to carry the torch in 2020, but I'm not sure a woman leader will fit the mold of what the sheeple will buy unless she comes from the Palin mold, but that is not Ivanka. More likely, it will either be another media-driven male, maybe Glen Beck or Sean Hannity; or, it will be Ryan, Cruz or Rubio trying to be a media-driven person. They will all try to find the perfect balance between like-Trump-but-not-too-much-like-Trump to align with their sheeples' desire of wanna-Trump-but-one-that-can-sneak-into-the-WH-and-then-rain-down-hell-on-all-the-libratards-and-all-"the-others." Trump will have a big role as kingmaker for the GOP nomination , but fortunately not for the actual WH.